Looks better OperaGuy I've not been able to get Poser Strand hair to look right with IDL only. Done with Dublin! Not me. My current favorite she is. :-)

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this is strictly a hair study. the scene is a little overlighted/blown out, as seen at the base of her back.

I could not get this far with strand hair with only emitters; I had to put a spot on her hair with raytrace, shadow blurr radius 1, samples 19. The intensity is low: 22%

Also, the render settings are totally cranked: Brute Force 100% IC with 3 raytrace bounces, indirect light quality 100%, pixel samples 36, min shading rate .21

Took about 4 hours, mostly because of raytrace on 16,000 strands of hair with zero clumpiness.

I am happy with the hair, although the shadows at the bottom are a little muddy. I'm going to change skins, however, as the red-cheeked Dublin is not to my liking anymore.

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